Monday, March 22 Bell Ringer: How does understanding who a character is (through indirect characterization) affect/influence/impact your understanding of the text?
Lesson Question: How does a picture create meaning?
Two words to remember – message and mood – know some tools Review Use and Purpose
Facial expressions can tell us about a picture: What does awe look like? What does envy look like? What does indifference look like? What does jealousy look like? What does joy look like?
Look at the picture “The Painting” by William Edward West. What do you see in the faces of the subjects? What do the various facial expressions tell you about the photo? What could be happening? Pick a character and tell me her/his story. (Photo in class viewing only).
Homework:Look at picture. Select word to describe mood. Use two of the following (facial expressions, camera angles, and camera shots) to support the mood word you have chosen.
March 23
Bell Ringer: Pass out note card and have students answer the following question: How does a picture convey a message? Tell students they should include the 2 key words and at least two tools. Allow 2 minutes for them to complete. Allow 2 minutes to share in their groups.
Answer: Two key words: Message (use and purpose) and Mood (camera angles, shots, composition, color, facial expressions, body language)
Task 1: Share your homework with your group. If you did not compete homework, complete now. Here is one suggested response. The mood of this picture could be a variety of feelings but I believe this crying woman resembles heartbreak. One technique that this image possessed was a straight-on camera angle. The camera angle is a close-up on a woman's face and she is presenting the act of crying. Because of the camera angle straight on, the woman is detailed, allowing us to see her facial expressions. Her squinted eyes, frown, wrinkled eyebrows and hand on her forehead show heartbreak.The skin below her eyes looks shiny as if wet with tears or running make-up. Her bangs are sticking to her face in despair like she does not care about her appearance.Aside from the camera angle, the foreground is important to find the mood of a picture. The foreground is just the woman's head, arm, and one shoulder. In the background, there is just a plain wall so it appears she is crying alone.
It is definitely a close up: A close up forces you to concentrate on the facial expressions and as a viewer you think about the individual. It is about the subject.
It is a straight -on shot. You would think that this is the only honest camera angle, and in some ways it is more honest than others. But we all know the effect of holding a still shot of a subject and not moving it. We tend not to look at people this way because us and them feel uncomfortable. When the camera shoots a subject dead on without wavering for more than a few seconds, it tends to make us, the viewers, squirm. We are left with our discomfort, which is easily projected onto the subject.
Her body language (hand on her face) partially covers up her face - like she is covering up some pain. I say pain because her squinted eyes and scrunched face look like crying.
Complete Practice #2:Look at picture. Select Mood word and provide support. We will review this tomorrow at the beginning of class. Complete it on Google Docs ( call it Last name CA 8. ___ Test prep 2).
Use the top photo. The bottom one was last nights homework.
Tomorrow is the quiz. I will provide the mood words and a toolbox (list of tools) for you to use when you write the Type 2.
Task 2: You have the remaining time to work on finding your pictures (what we started in class on Friday, March 19 – remember what was stated in Task 1)
Please remind students that their quiz is tomorrow – study notes on message and mood are listed on my wiki – “Study Session” under visual literacy.
Bell Ringer:
How does understanding who a character is (through indirect characterization) affect/influence/impact your understanding of the text?
Two words to remember – message and mood – know some tools
Review Use and Purpose
Review Camera Shot and Angle
Review model
Facial expressions can tell us about a picture: What does awe look like? What does envy look like? What does indifference look like? What does jealousy look like? What does joy look like?
Look at the picture “The Painting” by William Edward West. What do you see in the faces of the subjects? What do the various facial expressions tell you about the photo? What could be happening? Pick a character and tell me her/his story. (Photo in class viewing only).
Homework: Look at picture. Select word to describe mood. Use two of the following (facial expressions, camera angles, and camera shots) to support the mood word you have chosen.
March 23
Bell Ringer:
Pass out note card and have students answer the following question: How does a picture convey a message? Tell students they should include the 2 key words and at least two tools. Allow 2 minutes for them to complete. Allow 2 minutes to share in their groups.
Answer: Two key words: Message (use and purpose) and Mood (camera angles, shots, composition, color, facial expressions, body language)
Task 1:
Share your homework with your group. If you did not compete homework, complete now. Here is one suggested response.
The mood of this picture could be a variety of feelings but I believe this crying woman resembles heartbreak. One technique that this image possessed was a straight-on camera angle. The camera angle is a close-up on a woman's face and she is presenting the act of crying. Because of the camera angle straight on, the woman is detailed, allowing us to see her facial expressions. Her squinted eyes, frown, wrinkled eyebrows and hand on her forehead show heartbreak. The skin below her eyes looks shiny as if wet with tears or running make-up. Her bangs are sticking to her face in despair like she does not care about her appearance. Aside from the camera angle, the foreground is important to find the mood of a picture. The foreground is just the woman's head, arm, and one shoulder. In the background, there is just a plain wall so it appears she is crying alone.
It is definitely a close up:
A close up forces you to concentrate on the facial expressions and as a viewer you think about the individual. It is about the subject.
It is a straight -on shot. You would think that this is the only honest camera angle, and in some ways it is more honest than others. But we all know the effect of holding a still shot of a subject and not moving it. We tend not to look at people this way because us and them feel uncomfortable. When the camera shoots a subject dead on without wavering for more than a few seconds, it tends to make us, the viewers, squirm. We are left with our discomfort, which is easily projected onto the subject.
Her body language (hand on her face) partially covers up her face - like she is covering up some pain. I say pain because her squinted eyes and scrunched face look like crying.
Complete Practice #2: Look at picture. Select Mood word and provide support. We will review this tomorrow at the beginning of class. Complete it on Google Docs ( call it Last name CA 8. ___ Test prep 2).
Use the top photo. The bottom one was last nights homework.
Tomorrow is the quiz. I will provide the mood words and a toolbox (list of tools) for you to use when you write the Type 2.
Task 2:
You have the remaining time to work on finding your pictures (what we started in class on Friday, March 19 – remember what was stated in Task 1)
Please remind students that their quiz is tomorrow – study notes on message and mood are listed on my wiki – “Study Session” under visual literacy.